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The chase for blue is never ending, and yet remains elusive, as Lavinia Greenlaw writes in Blue Field:
‘I keep my distance, as things turn blue
through stillness and distance;
as everything blue is distant’
Artists since Neolithic times have chased blue even more than gold. In ancient times Lapis Lazuli produced the most treasured
pigment. The Egyptians were the first to recreate a synthetic version of this pigment, with blue considered highly valuable as
it could lead the soul to immortality.
Millenniums later Kandinsky continued to explore the colour in this vein. ‘Blue’ he wrote in On the …